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The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus


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10

[I wrinkled am and passing olde]

I wrinkled am and passing olde
But gallant is my motion,

Abhorring aie to be controulde
By any ones deuotion.
Come all that list on me to mount,
Sure I will not forsake them,
But let them make their iust account,
That finely I shall shake them.
No doe I aske men ought for hose,
For shooes, for drinke, or meating,
Come all that list with me to close
Sans paying or intreating.
And they may chaunce finde in my wombe
To make them wish they were at home.

A description of the indomable wilde sea, whose waues are her wrincles: she is as wanton as any Westminster wagtaile, and for the bodie as perilous.
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